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Ryan Blackburn: David Adelman is frustrated tonight. Mentioned multiple times that the defensive rebounding and second chance points were an issue, that Denver “gave the game away.” Also made some mention of Denver’s 2-man game needing other guys to be playmakers and more aggressive.
Bennett Durando: David Adelman under the weather today, so Dave Joerger filled in at practice and on media duty. He’s got jokes. On working with Nuggets’ offense: “It’s a problem for me. … It was historically good (last year). Where do you go from there? You know who to blame: It’s this guy.”
Bennet Durando: FWIW, asked David Adelman if he’s concerned at all by Nikola Jokic’s slow shooting start (5/23 from 3 in particular, exacerbating Denver’s spacing issues caused by no Cam Johnson): “I don’t see anything mechanical. He hasn’t complained about any discomfort or anything like that.”
“I knew people that knew him well, and the way they talked about him just as a person in the room was also part of the reason why we wanted him,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said. “He can really score. He can really play. But having another leader in that room — losing Tim and losing Bruce (Brown), two personalities in our locker room … you have to go find it on the free agency market. With DeMar, that’s one of those things we wanted. A veteran leader. Failed. Succeeded. Been through all of it.”
Katy Winge: David Adelman says Spencer Jones will NOT play tonight for the Nuggets. Says it’s not a serious thing with the hamstring, it’s just a precautionary... “It's one of those injuries that could turn out to be a serious thing.” “You can’t lose your backup power forward night one.”
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Mark Medina: Nuggets will reevaluate Julian Strawther in six weeks after spraining his left knee in Wednesday’s preseason game vs the Clippers. Nuggets coach David Adelman said Aaron Gordon will sit out for rest purposes vs the Lakers
Nuggets guard Julian Strawther was helped off the court with a left leg injury during Denver’s preseason game Wednesday in Los Angeles. Strawther’s leg got caught under his body and bent awkwardly as he landed on it during the third quarter. He stayed down, grimacing in pain, as Nuggets trainers tended to him. After being helped up, he didn’t appear to be putting any pressure on the injured leg as he left the court. The Nuggets ruled him out a few minutes later, though without any specific injury designation. He’ll undergo an MRI on Thursday, coach David Adelman told reporters in Los Angeles after a 122-110 loss.
Justin Russo: David Adelman with a very illuminating answer on how much he believes preseason translates to early stages of regular season: “I think the concepts do. And even in the early regular season, you’re going to see yourself struggle with things you know you have to get better at.”
Over the course of the season, maybe even over the course of a week, that will certainly happen, Adelman says. But the second-year coach prefers not to play more than a 10-man rotation in a 24-minute half, essentially because jamming an 11th man into his sub pattern throws off the rhythm of how he rotates his starters. “It gets really junky,” he explained. “When you get to 11, there’s gotta be a reason for it. It does happen if you have minute restrictions on people — you can get away with it. But nobody flows well with 11. Even teams that play 11, it usually isn’t all in the first half. … It’s tough on the guys, man. Starters, they don’t want to come out, and they also don’t want to sit there for an hour before they go back in. So you’re protecting them in two different ways. It’s not just (lowering) the minutes. It’s how long do they sit? … So it’s an equation we go through every year. It’s one of the hardest things that people don’t realize, is how to do that properly and have a good flow to your team nightly.”
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Bennett Durando: Interesting note from David Adelman: Nuggets will continue trying all-bench lineups into the regular season. “We’ve looked at all the metric stuff. We’ve had some success with Cam (Whitmore) out there. … We’ve also had some success with no starter out there. So I have to at least see that”
Bennett Durando: Adelman on the competition for spots in the rotation: “It’s what you want. I’ll be honest, the worry for me coming into camp was, do we only have nine players? And you can’t survive the season like that. So it’s good to see growth from a lot of guys.”
Brendan Vogt: David Adelman on Spencer Jones: We have to be careful with Spencer. He’s our backup 4. The goal is to get him to Oklahoma City (season opener).
Bennett Durando: David Adelman on Spencer Jones: “The goal is to get him to OKC.”